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"As art historians have long known, the discovery of Japanese woodblock prints in Paris, following the opening of Japan to the West in 1854, was a startling aesthetic encounter that played a crucial role in the Impressionists' and Post-Impressionists' invention of Modernism. Japan, France shows that leading French writers shared that shock of encounter and also experimented with Japanese aesthetics in their own work, in ways that similarly thread into the foundations of Modernism."--Jacket.Read more...

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The discovery of Japanese woodblock prints in Paris, following the opening of Japan to the West, played a crucial role in the invention of Modernism. This history of the idea of Japan in France, as tracked through readings of canonical French writers and thinkers from the 1860s to the present, is literary and intellectual, its context cultural.Read more...